About us

Empowered Futures offers specialist disability services to individuals and their families in order to build capacity and create an empowered life. We specialise in working with people who experience multiple disabilities often accompanied by complex health requirements.

We are committed to working with individuals and their families on their journey for life, encompassing all aspects of the person’s experience – past, present and future.

Our aim is to be a values-based organisation that strives to:

  • Create empowering Participant and Family experiences and
  • Retain a highly engaged workforce with the right capability operating within a relational framework founded on integrity.
  • Continuously improve delivery, quality and innovation – enhancing systems and
  • Have sustainable and fit for purpose resources and growth enabling provision of high quality and continually improving supports.

We aim to create a welcoming, warm and caring environment for the people we support, the families we work with and our team as a whole.

Empowered Futures has made a deliberate decision to remain a small boutique disability services provider. Our focus is primarily on the delivery of Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Community Access (CAS) supports. We currently provide SIL supports to individuals across several locations in Ipswich and Brisbane’s western suburbs. This allows us to focus on quality rather than quantity and provide the highest quality supports to a small number of people with multiple disabilities and associated complex medical conditions, working with them to live their best lives.

Our Core Values

ENABLE – Empowered Futures want to enable and facilitate young people and their families to receive high quality services and care. We can act as the conduit which can connect you to the right person at the right time so that small challenges don’t become big barriers. If we can’t provide the service we’re not afraid to link you with someone else who knows more about your area of need then we do.

EMPOWER – We want to empower young people and their families to have maximum control and optimal choice about the future. We want the best for your future and will plan and work with you to achieve it.

INNOVATE – We want to excel at finding new and different ways to approach problems and help you achieve your goals. We won’t settle for simply doing things the conventional way but will look for better and more effective solutions and approaches to the challenges you face.

INTEGRITY – Empowered Futures are committed to the highest levels of personal and professional integrity. We want to be honest, speaking the truth as well as living our lives in a genuine and authentic way. We will act with openness, transparency and accountability which will allow us to build strong relationships built on trust.

EQUITY – Empowered Futures believe in fairness and equity for all – irrespective of your ability or social status. We will determine not to allow our personal feelings to bias our decisions and believe everyone should get a fair go. We’re prepared to take on challenges and deal with difficult situations even if unpopular.

RESPECT – Empowered Futures seeks to show respect for the worth of every human – honouring and celebrating each individual’s uniqueness and showing ultimate regard for their dignity in all of our actions.

Empowered Futures is committed to our strategic ‘true north’

PARTICIPANT – Everything we do is driven by creating empowering Participant and Family experiences and outcomes.

PEOPLE & CULTURE – A highly engaged workforce with the right capability operating within a relational framework founded on integrity.

QUALITY– Continuous improvement of delivery, quality and innovation – enhancing systems and supports.

SUSTAINABILITY– Sustainable and fit for purpose resources and growth enabling provision of high quality and continually improving supports.

Our Journey

Empowered Futures was founded in December 2013.

Our management team have combined their professional experiences with their own personal journeys of caring to become a boutique disability provider.

It is our passion to challenge the way disability services are delivered. For over twenty-five years we have watched the commercialisation and commodification of disability care and have experienced firsthand the frustration of service limitations and provider’s support driven solely by funding – we believe there must be a better way. Empowered Futures is committed to finding a better way. We are committed to travelling with people with disabilities and their families to find creative solutions to everyday challenges. We are committed to empowering people with disabilities and their families to triumph over the ‘disability system’ which rather than provide the necessary supports more often appears to be a blockage or source of frustration.